Privacy
The whole list, not the reassuring version. If any of this turns out to be wrong, tell me and I'll fix it.
The short version. Your meetings never reach us. Audio goes to your transcription provider and transcript text to the AI provider you chose — both on accounts you own and pay for. We receive your licence key when the app checks for updates, and a one-way fingerprint of your Mac if you start a trial. That is the complete list of what touches anything of ours.
What leaves your Mac
| What | Where it goes | When |
|---|---|---|
| Meeting audio | Deepgram, to be transcribed | Only while a meeting is recording |
| Transcript text | The AI provider you configured — Anthropic, OpenRouter, Azure, or a model running on your own machine | While a meeting runs, to make cards, notes and drafts |
| Your licence key | Keen Bean's update service | When the app checks for a new version, and when it downloads one |
| A one-way fingerprint of your Mac | Keen Bean's update service | Once, only if you start a free trial |
Nothing else. There is no account, no analytics, no crash reporting, no usage tracking, and no background reporting of any kind.
About the transcription and AI providers
Those are your accounts, on your keys, billed to you. What they retain is governed by their terms, not ours — worth reading if your meetings are sensitive. Choosing a model that runs locally on your Mac means the transcript never leaves the machine at all.
About the licence key
The update service needs to know a request is from someone entitled to updates, so the app sends the key with the check. We can see which licence asked and when. We cannot see anything about your meetings, because nothing about them is ever sent.
About the Mac fingerprint
A trial has to be able to end, which means something must remember when it started. The app takes your Mac's hardware identifier, combines it with a fixed value, hashes it one way, and sends the first half of the result. We cannot reverse it to your hardware identifier and it identifies nothing else. It is stored with the date the trial started, and an email address only if you asked for your key to be emailed. It is deleted automatically after about thirteen months.
What stays on your Mac
Everything else: transcripts, cards, drafts, screenshots, summaries, your API keys, project links, settings. They are ordinary files in a folder you can open.
Meeting notes are Markdown. Sessions are plain JSON. Both open in any text editor, and both outlive the app — if Keen Bean disappeared tomorrow, nothing you made with it would become unreadable.
This website
No cookies, no analytics, no tracking pixels, no third-party scripts. The one external request the page makes is to Google Fonts for two typefaces. Nothing on this site attempts to identify you.
If you buy
Payments are handled by Paddle, who act as the merchant of record — the seller on the receipt is Paddle, not Savvy Monkey. They collect the name, email and payment details needed to take the payment and handle tax, under their own privacy notice. We receive your name and email so we can issue and email your licence key, and so we can find your licence if you write to us about it. We never see your card details.
Recording other people
Keen Bean transcribes conversations, and the law about that differs by country and — in Australia — by state. Telling the people in your meeting is your responsibility, not something software can do for you. The app asks you to confirm they know, once per meeting, and Pause takes you off the record whenever you need it.
Deleting things
Deleting a meeting from the Meetings list removes it and its screenshots for good. That is the only action in the app that truly deletes — dismissing a card, parking it, or distilling a board only changes what you are shown.
To have your trial record or licence record removed from our side, email me and I'll do it. There is no form, because there is not enough data for one to be worth building.
Who to ask
Savvy Monkey — mike@savvymonkey.foo. Australia. Questions, corrections and deletion requests all go to the same address, and I answer them myself.
Last updated 1 August 2026. If this page and the app ever disagree, the app's behaviour is the bug — tell me and I'll fix the app.